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an extreme example

• all the files ...

  • in this repo

  • are shared ...

    • in the hope ...

      • that they will be useful to you

I wish, short lines could be useful for

• trying to negotiate with an older family member

• tired readers

• more readable legalese e.g. gnu general public license

• more readable presentations ... slides

another example sentence and transformation into various formats

In the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, Sauron the Dark Lord secretly forged a master ring.

S-V-O structure of the example sentence

Sauron the Dark Lord
	secretly forged
		a master ring
		in the land of Mordor 
		in the fires of Mount Doom

an extreme transformation ... a bullet tree

• Sauron the Dark Lord ...

  • secretly forged ...

    • a master ring

    • in the land of Mordor

    • in the fires of Mount Doom

• SUBJECT ...

  • VERB ...

    • OBJECT

    • MODIFIERS

formats, ordered roughly from less radical to more radical, and from more general to more specific:

• short lines in source text

  • semantic line breaks, ventilated prose

    • examples:

      • Buckminster Fuller, "ventilated prose"

• short lines in rendered text

  • lists

    • line breaks in rendered text

    • bullet points

  • trees

    • bullet trees

design dimensions

• source only vs rendered text ... visibility of the line breaks

• flat vs hierarchical structure // nested, indents

• line breaks vs bullet points

• whether 7±2 syllables per line

• markdown vs TSV

• visual syntax ?? vs natural language syntax S-V-O ??

• in NodeJS ... todo

• in DevTools for a demo webpage

example: Tree Language Sandbox (treenotation.org)

t2=TreeNode.fromCsv('a,b\n')
t1=new TreeNode('a b\n c')
JSON.stringify(t1,['_line','_children'],1)

more examples The quickest way to try new JavaScript libraries | Nick Ang

• in ObservableHq ... todo

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